Having being meaning to go up Catbells for ages; we finally did it. It was meant to be our warm up walk for Haystacks on Tuesday, which due to complete lack of packing anywhere around Buttermere didn't actually happen. Catbells however with a heavy new tripod (it seemed really light in the shop, then was about 5 times as heavy at the top!) was enough to get my heart murmouring. I think we may have gone to the steep way up - there were so many people that we followed the crowd, but potentially the wrong crowd. When we ascended we came a more sensible route, so perhaps from an energy point of view we should have done it in reverse. What we did get however was a fantastic view on the ascent of the whole of Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite. What appears to be Cherry running down towards the end of the set is no apparition. Having started the walk at 12pm on only breakfast by 2.30 hunger had set in (for me anyway, Cherry got through almost a whole bag of licorice pandas :O ). Thus we went to the Lakeland Pedlar in Keswick for lunch afterwards. I found the portion sizes good for once (they've been a bit skimpy before), and had a very welcoming large plate of nachos with chilli :)